Attachment for harness.



E. W. HARGISS.

ATTACHMENT FOR HARNESS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.15, 1908.

907,042. Patented Dec. 15,1908.

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UNITED STATES PATEN T ()FFICE.

EDWIN W. HARGISS, OF HERMITAGE, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES M. BENTLEY, OF HERMITAGE, MISSOURI.

ATTACHMENT FOR HARNESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN W. HARGISS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Hermitage, in the county of Hickory, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trace-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a tracecarrier adapted for attachment to the hip straps of the harness to provide for the ready suspension of a trace therefrom.

The object of the invention is to providea simple and efficient trace carrier con structed to connect the hip straps, turnbacks, crupper forks and other straps as may be necessary, and also to hold up and carry, the free ends of a trace when the harness is not in use.

WVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the device in use on the harness applied to a horse; Fig. 2 represents a top plan view on an enlarged scale, of this improved harness attachment; Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section thereof; and Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the inner plate of said attachment detached.

In the embodiment illustrated, two circular plates 1 and 2 are shown made of any desired size and of any suitable material, each being provided with a central aperture to receive a bolt 3 for. clamping them to gether, said plates being preferably correspondingly concaved.

The p ate 1 will be hereinafter designated as the top plate and plate 2 as the bottom plate. The top plate 1 is provided at diametrically opposite points with two hooks 4 and 5 preferably made integral therewith, said hooks being bent down and under with their free ends so arranged that when placed in position, they will press firmly on the hip straps and form a complete hook-snap to hold the cock eyes 6 and 7 of the trace. The top plate 1 is preferably provided with an up-struck angular recess or chamber 8 adapted to receive a similarly shaped member 9 formed on the bottom plate. This angular recess performs a two-fold function; the recessed member 9 on the bottom plate being designed to receive the bolt tap to provide for a perfectly smooth under face on said bottom plate and when the plates are placed in position for use, these angular recessed members fit one within another and hold the plates against turning with the top plate in proper position to hold the hooks 4 and 5 thereof firmly on the hip straps.

The bottom plate 2 is preferably provided 011 its upper face, with a plurality of teeth or projections as 10 designed to penetrate and hold the straps arranged between it and the top plate and this bottom plate may if desired, be secured to the straps by means of rivets as 11..

This device can be easily adjusted to any width or any reasonable number of straps and used for connecting said straps without any sewing or other fastening means being necessary and the hooks 4 and 5 being constructed as above described, form snap hooks with which the cock eyes of the trace may be readily connected and disconnected but which will not permit said eyes to become accidentally disconnected.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention as defined in the appended claims. 7

Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is:

v1. In a trace carrier, the combination with two circular correspondingly concaved plates, of angular members connected to said plates and adapted to fit one within the other to hold the plates from turning, means for securing straps between the plates, and trace engaging hooks formed on said upper plate and being closed against the straps.

2. In a trace carrier, the combination with upper plate and being closed against the twp1 plates, ofd angLla-r mfpmbers carried by straps. sai p ates a apte to t one Within the I other, inwardly projecting teeth upon the EDWIN HARGISS' 5 upper face of the lower plate, straps engaged Witnesses:

by said teeth, and secured between the plates, ALVA FISHER, and trace-engaging hooks formed on said PAUL MURPHY. 

